Incidentally, Prock-Schauer - who, in trying to keep up with the scorching pace, is finding little time to do anything else - recently found himself dragged into the dirty battle between the two carriers, with Kingfisher Airline officials claiming they were luring him away from Jet and getting him on board (even for this story, he refused to be dragged into any comparisons between the two rivals, saying that he would only comment on his airline).
Sources say that he had to face the ire of his chairman - who even went so far as to say that there were ten CEOs who would replace Prock-Schauer if he abandoned the Jet ship - and eventually chose to stay put.
But that may be a harder decision than he realised. As the weeks have gone by, there seems to be no let-up in Jet's overseas obsession. Take a closer look at what Goyal has done in the last few months (managed by Prock-Schauer primarily) - ever since his first aircraft left for American shores (see chart I).
Image: Chairman of United Breweries Group, Vijay Mallya speaks during an event to announce the merger of Air Deccan and Kingfisher Airlines
Photograph: Pal Pillai/AFP/Getty Images
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